Quotes About Frustration

So there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and ain't going to no more.

Confound it, it's foolish, Tom

A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.

I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Love is madness if thwarted it develops fast

Damn these human beings! If I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear

Dan's voice rose on the air: Oh, bring some soap, why don't you! The reply was Italian. Dan resumed: Soap, you know—soap. That is what I want—soap. S-o-a-p, soap; s-o-p-e, soap; s-o-u-p, soap. Hurry up! I don't know how you Irish spell it, but I want it. Spell it to suit yourself, but fetch it. I'm freezing.

Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name, when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing.

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

L'avevo messo là dentro senza riflettere, poiché avevo immaginato che sarebbe stato particolarmente comodo averlo lì dentro. E ora, il pensiero che era lì, così a portata di mano e tanto vicino eppure irraggiungibile peggiorava la situazione e la rendeva insopportabile. Già, la cosa che non si può avere è la cosa che più si desidera; tutti lo sanno.

Well, everybody does that way, Huck." "Tom, it don't make no difference. I ain't everybody, and I can't stand it. It's awful to be tied up so.

My parents were told by the principal of West Barnstable Elementary School and my teacher that I was a bright boy whose spelling was in the retarded range and whose handwriting was the worst they'd ever seen. I find it embarrassing that I spell so badly. I will do almost anything to avoid being embarrassed, but no effort either on my part or on the part of any teacher has ever dented my utter bafflement when it comes to choosing which letters to put down, how many, and in what order.

Medical care has become a lot of crust and precious little pie.

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. In fact these days the only thing that gets me outside is when I say: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

It's too annoying. Too me.

You know sometimes you go into something thinking you're going to make all the difference. You're going to save the situation. Make it right. But that was too much for me.

rocking back and forth between wishful thinking and some private agony until the bar breaks.

Something's really off. I'm off. I can't do a fucking thing.

Unfortunately nothing happened with the girls. They just ran off giggling into the night. No digits, no dates, not even their names, leaving me feeling dumb and sad, a bit like a broken thermos- fine on the outside, but on the inside nothing but busted glass.

I've lost this sentence, I can't even finish it, don't know how—